I'm on my way to the annual Debian confere3nce, and it struck me that although Koha's dependenices (or most of them) are in Debian, Koha itself might also be, but it'd require the Koha project to support the version in Debian for 2-4 years

wnickc, tcohen: I am working on setting up an environment to test bug 14517; when I run sudo koha-shell -c "perl translate install es-ES", I still get the error message that necessary directories don't exist, "Koha directories hierarch for es-ES must be created first".